>realize like half of "top 10 best movies" are just Stephen King adaptations
How the frick does he keep doing it
>realize like half of "top 10 best movies" are just Stephen King adaptations
>realize like half of "top 10 best movies" are just Stephen King adaptations
How the frick does he keep doing it
and the other half are mobster biographies
Coke binge in the 70s.
Mass market paperbacks, increased jet travel means more people reading easy books on vacation.
Rise of home video releases.
People love to shit on him but he’s a kino factory and American treasure. FACT.
Most movies based on Stephen King books are garbage though
Can I be honest with you guys. I feel like I can be honest with you. The only Stanley Kubrick movie I like is The Shinning. I think he's severely overated otherwise. And yeah, King is a creative genius.
Stephen King hates all the film adaptions of his stories because they ALWAYS make them better, which is usually the opposite of good books. They literally reveal him for the hack he is.
King isn’t a plot-oriented author and his success means his editors don’t want to kill the golden goose. The result is bloated meandering books. I personally like this style because I’m a fast reader and don’t like minimalism all the time.
But if you’re trying to make a movie out of his book you’ll cut out a lot of the superfluous bits and have a more streamlined plot-driven piece that will be more accessible and enjoyable to the average viewer.
also you cut pedophile and kiddy porn stuff which is in 90% of his books
Which is worrying, considering how many of his stories are "what if a writer was in a place and something spooky happened" revealing a lot of his stories are based on experiences... they do say "write what you know", after all.
Other than a sex scene between teens in It what are examples of pedo shit in his books?
Off the top of my head there is a rape scene in The Library Policeman. I never thought the It scene was strange because it was some macroverse ritual thing that connected them all until adulthood to destroy evil. That’s how I read it not as sex among adolescents.
The descriptions of kids being mutilated and killed especially the kid killed by his dad with a hammer were much more disturbing to me but I guess that is fine for most people.
Carrie, Firestarter, Children of the corn, The Stand, Library Policeman. And there are a lot of fricked up sex parts in plenty oh his other works
>Carrie
Not sure about the others but wasn't that a blowjob scene where they were like 16. Hardly pedo.
What happened in The Stand?
King is great at coming up with concepts that become good movies.
only book of his i read is carrie and i don't think the movie was better spacek is a qt though
Not even remotely true. Matter of fact he tends to love the goofier adaptations from the likes of Romero and Garris just as much as the critically acclaimed shit, and the majority of the critically acclaimed ones tend to stick closest to the books.
he’s way more open than most authors about film adaptations, it’s just Kubrick’s Shining he didn’t like
Kubriks shining was filmed so much better even if the story wasn't as good. There's a scene in kings version where you can very clearly see the camera reflected in the front door of the Stanley and it's baffling to me that no one caught that in time to refilm.
>They literally reveal him for the hack he is.
Why does he get so many adaptations then?
Because his name is on them. He pumps out so many books a year that he dominated early "horror" stories, which meant he benefitted from heavy marketing. It's why now he puts out books and his name will take up half the front cover, being even larger than the title. It's also why his son's shit books got published, with the same reason they put KING as the largest text on the front cover.
he hates the super successful ones, because they usually stray away from his books. Mid box office successes he likes like Stand By Me or The Dead Zone
Has Michael Fassbender ever been in a Stephen King adaptation like Sarah Gadon has?
Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated fricking movie of all-time. It's like a fricking Lifetime movie; I don't get what the frick people see in it.
Boomers eat that shit up. Look at Forrest Gump it is just some saccharine nostalgia tour with commercial gloss and no soul but they loved it.
Forrest Gump is a million times better than shawshank
>Forrest Gump is a million times better than shawshank
moronic opinions.
it's a great movie with tons of soul and a universal message about the endurance of the human soul.
I’ve simply seen it too much so I just see it as an over produced, over polished, sappy Hallmark movie.
Imagine having a qt3.14 to cuddle with to watch Hallmark movies with.
>Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated fricking movie of all-time. It's like a fricking Lifetime movie; I don't get what the frick people see in it.
The dialogue pisses me off so much. So frickign schmaltzy
Welp, he is not in my top 10, so why care about this Neanderthal
You will now watch Romerokino.
Lol, even that STD ridden israelite wouldn't frick her.
Kind was one of the ugliest men in the world when he was young, but as an old man he is kind of good looking. Is this normal?
His son inherited his ugliness.
>Is this normal?
Yes, old age makes you uglier so if you were already ugly you just become "normal", while young beautiful people can only get worse. The wall is basically a layer of wrinkles that covers your former face
Why did he think filming his own version of The Shining was a good idea, it makes the lawnmower man look like it was filmed by DaVinci
>top 10 kinos
>all wrote by King
King wrote the Klansman???? Based!
I honestly don't know why people like the Dark Tower series. Sure, the books are pretty decent but after he introduces himself as a character in his books they just nosedive in quality. They just become some sort of weird masturbation tool for King.
For me? It's Dreamcatcher
And the best tv show is 11.22.63 starring James Franco and Sarah Gadon.
i just love silver bullet so much
Hm I did a count of the 10 actually best movies and while there are book adaptations in there none of them are written by King
Wait ok the Shining is a King adaptation? Ok he got one then. Not 50%
He writes slop for novels, but the basic prompts are great outlines for movie scripts. It's up to the directors to make good pulp.
Schlock makes for better movies than literature. See JAWS.